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I don't know if there is a single government agency more universally reviled than the TSA. I cannot think of a single person who supports this, and yet it happe
by scythe 16y ago
I don't know if there is a single government agency more universally reviled than the TSA. I cannot think of a single person who supports this, and yet it happens.
Unbelievable.
- siculars 16y agoThe IRS? http://www.irs.gov/ http://www.irs.gov/. Perhaps. But this stuff is really egregious. I am not looking forward to my next flight. These new rules are really making me question whether or not I want to fly. Obviously, I won't say I will never fly again but this will really make me think about whether or not I really have to.
- tomjen3 16y agoThe IRS is annoying, hampers business and is very ineffective, but there is at least some good in it.
- jrockway 16y agoI think you're confusing the IRS, which collects taxes, with Congress, who levies the taxes. "Don't shoot the messenger" and all that.
- stretchwithme 16y agoand don't blame a bomb just cuz it lands on your house
- ahoyhere 16y agoBelieve it or not, in all my dealings with the IRS, they have been polite and effective. And I was late with my taxes so there was a reason for them to be jerks.
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- ghshephard 16y agoActually, I find the entire escalation of TSA to be both fascinating, in a kind of 'what will they think of next' as well as in a practical manner. Eventually the security theater will get _so_ intense, that it will result in enhanced security of flights. Makes me think of the scanners in "Total Recall" And yes, I get the whole "Give Up Liberty for a bit of safety, Deserve neither" argument. Though, I'm guessing some might argue that Airplane flights today are safer than they were in the 80s, and continue to get safer even _past_ the fact that people can't get into the Pilots Cabin, and passengers know they have to fight back in the event of a hijacking...
- DougWebb 16y agoI really doubt that there is much difference at all in the number of passengers killed, injured, or even inconvenienced by hijackers on planes today compared to the 80's. There have only been a handful of significant incidents in the past 30 years, and probably half of them occured on 9/11. In contrast, air travel has become horribly inconvenient for almost everyone due to the security theater. We have nonsense restrictions, much longer wait times to get to our gates, and invasive sexual assualt security checkpoints. We've given up far too much for little or no benefit.
- mtholking 16y agoFormer United States Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff supports it. "Chertoff has been an advocate of full body scanners at airports. In 2010 he admitted that a client of his security firm, the Chertoff Group, is Rapiscan Systems, one of the two manufacturers of this technology." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Chertoff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Chertoff
- steveklabnik 16y agoHe said 'person,' not 'politician.' Then again, I know lots of people who'd support this...
- random42 16y agoWhat are the rules regarding conflict of interests for holding federal positions in the US?
- DougWebb 16y agoOnly one rule: don't get caught. We've got serious corruption problems.
- swilliams 16y agoThe company name is RAPISCAN? I'm guessing they don't pronounce it rape-i-scan. That's just a little too on the nose.
- dlnovell 16y agoit seems that "rapey-scan" would be most appropriate